Description: "Spain's great lyric poet, Gustavo Adolfo Bâecquer (1836-1870), is famed both for his poetry and his fiction. Bâecelebrated Rhymes consists of sixty-six of the most splendid poems written in Spain in the nineteenth century. As the Alvarez Quintero brothers said, 'All his poetry is moonlight.' And the six tales from Bâecquer's Legends, shimmering between romance and fantasy, show why his prose is recognized as among the best from the Spanish Romantic tradition"--
